Tangled Branches: Cultivated
happenings in and around my zone 6b gardens in northern Virginia and in central Virginia
Saturday, November 17, 2007
Fall Foliage
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| This holly tree is at the edge of the deck |
Some views from the deck, from left to right across the lot.
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| Pink-coral leaves of black haw viburnum | Viburnum in context beneath oaks, next to dogwood |
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| Multicolored leaves of arrowwood viburnum | Winterberry holly and epimedium |
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| Winterberry holly with American holly in front | This oak tree caps the winterberry hollies |
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| 'Sango Kaku' Japanese maple is behind the winterberry hollies | The cyclamen foliage will be with us all winter |
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| 'Glowing Embers' Japanese maple behind 'Mildred Mae' azalea | This scarlet oak was a small tree 20 years ago |
All too soon, the view from the deck will be of my neighbors' swingsets, shed, compost bin, and woodpile with blue tarp, but right now the view is as good as it gets all year.
15 Comments:
Oh wow... I was drooling over the black haw viburnum--until I saw that winterberry holly. Gorgeous. I'll take one of each, please! (And I'll need a whole other lot to go with them, lol.)
By the way, I answered your question about the grassy plant on my post. It's a carex, and I included a link to a fuller picture of it from an earlier post. That said, I do have a pretty white-edged liriope as well...
I especially like the leaves of the arrowwood viburnum with the edges tinged with purple. Gorgeous photos. Your Sango kaku looks fairly small yet. The colors may become richer when it matures although it looks better than mine did at that size.
This has been a strange year for color. Some of the Japanese maples didn't color up at all and the leaves are turning brown. Many of the plants are slow in turning like the fothergilla but the ones that have turned are really a very rich color this year.
Gorgeous display of foliage, for sure. I have a question, now: why do you not have any RSS feeds so that your fans (count me among 'em) know when you've updated your blog? I have my favourites all collected in a feed reader and I run it daily to check who has updated, then I go through and read them. Otherwise I might forget to go down through all my blog links and check them.
I love the pictures of all the individual elements of the woods off your deck. I bet collectively, it is just a stunning view right now!
(Jodi... I've got Entangled set up on my feedreeder, so there is a feed someplace, but I do recall it took me some time to figure it out.)
Carol, May Dreams Gardens
Blackswamp Girl: The black haw viburnum is a huge shrub, but the winterberry hollies are smaller - you might be able to fit one in ;-) I'll be right over to look at the Carex.
Ki: It's funny, but I don't remember that arrowwood viburnum having that much fall color in the past - the color shading this year almost looks like a painting. The Sango Kaku maple has just a few leaves tinged with red, and those are at the top of the plant (where it gets more light?), so it'll be interesting to see if the colors get better in the future. I noticed a lot of red-leaved Japanese maples around the neighborhood turned crispy brown over the summer, including my Beni Otake, which looks so bad I won't photograph it. I hope it comes back next year.
Jodi: Yikes! I didn't realize the blog feed was hard to find. I'll put a link on the main page ASAP, but the URL of the feed is http://tangledbranches.com/blog/atom.xml
Carol: Maybe it's just me, but it seems that the colors are especially brilliant this year. I hope we get a good sunny day for more pictures before the leaves fall.
Ooooh, I'm digging those hollies! And viburnum, and...all of it! Why is your view going to change? Sounds like a tall fence with plantings and vines is in order!
That black haw viburnum is just gorgeous - those berries look like they'll be gorgeous all winter long (and make the birds happy) - what nice fall color. I keep meaning to look at the viburnums, and to get a few more into my garden - they really are beautiful (and underestimated often I think - at least here in the south).
Great collection of colorful foliage! I too love that arrowwood viburnum. It is often overlooked here as it is a native but a great one!
Lisa: The backyard view is wonderful for 6 months, and then dismal for 6 months after the leaves fall. Privacy fences are Not Allowed, but I've got some rhododendrons and hollies at the back of the lot that are starting to get big enough for screening. I could do a looooong post on the history of the backyard.
Pam: Now that you mention it, I don't think we have any native viburnums on our lot in central Virginia, but the ones in this post were already present in the woods when we bought the house in northern Virginia. I'll have to look up the distribution maps of those, but I wonder if they aren't more adapted to the northern states.
Layanee: I think the arrowwood viburnum has very pretty foliage. And I always like to see the pleated leaves when they just begin to emerge in the spring - they look so elegant. The one in the picture wasn't planted by me, but I ordered some seedlings a few years ago from Musser Forests and they seem a bit different - I hope I've got the ID correct on the one in the photo.
How beautiful! The view can't get much better than that. I especially love the Japanese Maples and the arrowwood viburnum.
How incredibly beautiful - it just must be delightful that time of year!!
Kylee: Thanks, and you should see the red Japanese Maple today - it got brighter over the weekend.
Garden Gossip: Thanks for the compliment. It's kind of like the grand finale of fireworks on the 4th of July.
Hi! I just found your site, those colors are fantastic. It must be nice to have such a wooded area near your home. The viburnum looks great. I've been trying to get several of them going in my landscape this season. I like the Japanese Maples also, they are hard to beat for the fall color. Did your Japanese maples seed this year? The ones near us did not due to the frost and drought.
Hi Dave - thanks for stopping by! I have a love-hate relationship with the woods. I love the trees, but hate that it's hard to grow anything in their shade. It's been a long learning process.
The 'Glowing Embers' maple had a few seeds this year, but as I got busy with the vegetable garden I didn't watch their progress to see how/whether they matured. Something to look for next year.
Ahhh yes...the "Long Story"....heh...I have some as well. But hey, there are fun ways to deal with these things...my favorite are thorns. In fact, some barberries get tall....;-)
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